Sentences with phrase «fossil fuels point»

Recent reports on the current status of the reserves of fossil fuels point to a the need to switch to alternative energies such as Solar Power.

Not exact matches

But when it comes to fracking — the oil and gas industry's technique to tap into harder - to - reach fossil fuels — the two have similarly negative yet slightly divergent view points, which were highlighted at the Democratic Presidential Debate in Flint, Michigan, on Sunday night.

«That, let's be honest, has some fossil fuel interests pretty nervous, to the point where they are trying to fight renewable energy.»

A target of $ 250 million in reduced fossil fuel subsidies is our starting point, and a first step will be to allow for the use of the Canadian Exploration Expenses tax deduction only in cases of unsuccessful exploration.

His main point is the astounding decline in government revenues from fossil fuel production due to criminally low royalties and corporate taxation.

I've thought for some time that solar will beat fossil fuels strictly on cost at some point.

Now that energy is becoming the factor that is scarce and labor is plentiful, it would make more sense to replace fossil fuels by labor, especially at those points where that could also restore interest and dignity to work.

If you've got it, flaunt it — and your hair will remain perfect until the excess energy you used powering two hair dryers will hasten the world's expenditure of fossil fuels to the point where we can no longer afford the electricity to power hair dryers, and instead resort into walking into darkened caves full of bats and allowing the collective heat of their tiny nocturnal bodies to hasten the evaporation of our surplus hair water.

Many of the same warnings Mario Cuomo heard in the 1980s about Shoreham are the same ones his son hears today from supporters of Indian Point: Closing a nuclear plant will result in blackouts, a less reliable electric grid and increased air pollution as fossil fuels are burned to replace the lost emissions - free nuclear power; customers could face higher bills; more than 1,000 jobs will be lost, and tax revenue for schools and towns will dissipate.

It's clear that more fossil fueled plants will be needed to replace Indian Point and if we're not careful, they may end up right here in Rockland County.

Some warned that if Indian Point's power is replaced with fossil fuels, such as natural gas, there will be little or no gain.

The state's draft Energy Plan points backward to the fossil - fuel past.

As fossil fuels have a finite quantity, the costs of using it tend to increase as we get to the point where it is no longer easily available.

If ethanol runs a negative energy balance, as asserted by some critics (including those nattering West Wing characters), then the enterprise is doomed: What is the point of wasting fossil fuels that could be consumed directly somewhere else?

And burning fossil fuels at the same increasing rates through 2050 would drive those levels to their highest point in 50 million years, according to an April study in Nature Communications.

The past year looks like the turning point when alternatives to fossil fuels — everything from solar energy, wind turbines, ethanol, and the hybrid car — finally hit the mainstream.

Raab points out that solar power is not yet ready to fully replace fossil fuels, though.

This time, the dominant carbon isotopic values in the new inputs were about -60 ‰, pointing to a microbially driven source rather than fossil fuel inputs.

A United Nations report released Sunday said that governments must act faster to keep global warming in check and that a radical shift from fossil fuels to low - carbon energy such as wind, solar or nuclear power would shave only about 0.06 of a percentage point a year off world economic growth.

By 2020, IEA expects photovoltaic technology fitted on residential and commercial buildings to reach «grid parity,» or the point at which solar power is consistently cost - competitive with conventional fossil fuels and nuclear power.

1 Alternative Energy The turning point when alternatives to fossil fuels finally hit the mainstream...

But as Kurt E. Yeager, former president of the Electric Power Research Institute in Palo Alto, Calif., points out, such standards «aren't worth the paper they're written on until we have a power system, a grid, that is capable of assimilating that intermittent energy without having to build large quantities of backup power, fossil - fueled, to enable it.»

«It's very mysterious at this point in time, we don't really know what's contemplated there,» Fulton says, «If you piece together the different things that have been said by the president - elect about fossil fuels, and encouraging fossil fuel development, you'd expect this would have something to do with that.»

While fracking has become a focal point in conversations about methane emissions, it certainly appears from this and other studies that in the U.S., fossil fuel extraction activities across the board likely emit higher than inventory estimates.»

The analysis, led by Scot Miller, a doctoral student in atmospheric science at Harvard University, points to underestimates in emissions from livestock and fossil fuel activities as the primary reason for the disparity.

However parity with fossil fuel generated electricity is not the end point of PV generation - it is the economic start.

Participants agreed on a statement pointing out the disruption caused by fossil fuel use and calling for cooperative, collective action to curb greenhouse gas emissions.

Kennedy's study, published in the journal Nature Climate Change, proposes a new decision - making threshold for when to move from fossil fuel technology to electric power (called electrification), and at what point that move may increase or lower carbon emissions.

Keasling, who holds joint appointments at Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley, pointed to potential benefits of JBEI research that go beyond decreasing the nation's dependence on fossil fuels and reducing its carbon footprint on the environment.

We now have many lines of evidence all pointing to a single, consistent answer - the main driver of global warming is rising carbon dioxide levels from our fossil fuel burning.

Today, photosynthesis is considered «the most important chemical reaction on earth», providing food for humans and animals, releasing oxygen for them to breathe — and millions of years later, this process provides fossil fuel in the form of oil, coal and natural gas, as Michel likes to point out.

Calling fossil fuels an antiquated technology, like whale oil, Mann points out that alternative energy is growing even without subsidies or a price on carbon.

Importantly, he pointed out that human beings were now carrying out a large - scale geophysical experiment of a kind that could not have happened in the past or be reproduced in the future - an allusion, perhaps, to the growing realisation of the finite, one - off nature of the fossil fuels, being as they are a non-renewable resource over human timescales.

The most important point is that fossil fuel costs will continue to grow in the years to come, with or without climate change legislation.

«From a climate point of view, the best thing to do with fossil fuel resources still in the ground is to leave them in the ground.

The point of this graphic detail is to make clear the magnitude of the cleanup task and potential costs, if fossil fuel emissions continue unabated.

The irony isn't lost on anyone, I'd gather, that Gore has expended countless units of irreplaceable fossil fuels spreading his message of global warming — yet the point that holds water, so to speak, is the idea that we just don't have any choices right at this moment.

Osprey Lake of the Women's Earth and Climate Action Network (WECAN) in the United States, where the battle over the Keystone XL Pipeline and the development of the Alberta Tar Sands is raging, addressed the failure of the COP to deal with the central point of ending fossil fuel extraction: «With the COP taking place in Peru, it is the first time a UNFCCC meeting was held in an Amazon country.

James is right in pointing out that we still need to burn fossil fuel (Coal, Petrol, etc.) to generate electricity which charges the so called clean EV cars.

At one point on the highway it slipped into electron - only mode at 135 km / h, meaning the fossil fuel consumption ranked a big fat zero.

Peak Oil places you into the shiny, pointed shoes of someone running an oil empire where you must deal with investing in new technology, drilling for oil and then selling that oil before the world has run out of its favorite fossil fuel and will presumably be turning into a post-apocalyptic scenario quite soon, possibly with some guy called Max blasting around.

The other point I wanted to make with respect to a cost / benefit analysis of reduction and eventual near elimination of fossil fuel as an energy source is that this is already an unavoidable future.

I point to the ISOTOPIC SIGNATURE of the rising CO2 that shows it originates mostly from fossil fuel (no C14) and deforestation (surface organic).

Michael is also right to point out that the fossil fuel funded sceptics have cleverly kept the argument on whether global warming is happening and on its cause, thus diverting attention away from the dangers.

There's a public relations strategy used in the late 1990s by the fossil fuel industry to get their talking points across (they were all bogus talking points, but it was a fairly effective strategy).

Whether a specific molecule came specifically from a fossil fuel isn't really the point at all.

Advocates say the carbon footprint of bioplastics is better than fossil fuel - derived alternatives, which is true, but as «Life Without Plastic» points out, there's the added issue of supporting genetically modified corn production, which currently provides most material for bioplastics.

At that point, between the need to cut CO2 emissions and the fact that we are peaking in fossil fuel energy production (peak oil theory is looking pretty solid right now!)

He mainly pointed his camera at ecosystems and human communities in harm's way, but sometimes focused on the fossil fuel industry — most notably in capturing the first images of Shell's (ultimately ill - fated) Arctic oil rig Kulluk as it prepared to drill an exploratory oil well in the Beaufort Sea in 2012.

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